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More than 1 million other Powerball tickets sold in the United States also won prizes ranging from $4 to $150,000, the lottery said.
"I had to check it five or six times to make sure," the winner told the N.C. Education Lottery in an Aug. 19 news release. Pearce is a caretaker for his mom, and she was the first to know about his big prize. "She was tickled," said Pearce, who lives in Zebulon, a roughly 20-mile drive east from downtown Raleigh.